Posts Tagged: oddities

Memento mori (Latin: “remember you will die”) It’s October – the days are getting shorter and (thankfully!) cooler; the leaves are beginning to turn; the sudden morning chill is a reminder of the shifting seasons. It is the time of Harvest and the ubiquity of pumpkin spice lattes – or pumpkin anything really… It is also the month of Halloween! In a few short weeks, neighborhoods will be tyrannized by children demanding candy with menaces, while dressed as ghosts and witches, pirates and princesses. We’ll scare each other with… Read more »